Cooking

A high cooking level allows your character to cook better foods that heal more hit points. To raise your cooking level, you need to cook. Not all foods will cook nicely at first; some will burn. As your level rises, less food will burn. There are a variety of different kinds of food that you can cook, everything from meat and bread to chocolate cake and anchovy pizza. Members Runescape has extra food and drinks that can be made. Their recipes are in the Gainne Cook Book and Gnome Cocktail Guide. You can get the books at the Grand Tree inside the tree Gnome Stronghold. Members can also brew their own Cider and Ales.

To cook, click on the food, and then the heat source. There are a few different heat sources, the main ones are ranges and fires. You can also cook on some fireplaces. For lower level cooks, more food will cook successfully on a range than a fire. (NOTE: cakes, pies, pizzas, sweetcorn, and baked potatoes can only be cooked on a range.) Once you use the food with the heat source, you will see a screen showing the items in your inventory that can be cooked. Click or right click on the item you wish to cook. A right click will give you options to cook 1, 5, X, or All of that kind of item.

Some foods require a number of items to make. For example, an apple pie takes a pie dish, flour, water, and apples. For these types of food, gather all of the items, put them together, and then cook. The Cooking How To page gives directions for these foods.

Food (Free Servers)	Required level	Exp. gained	Points healed	Required ingredients
Anchovy	1	30	1	Anchovy
Bread	1	40	5	Water, Flour
Chicken	1	30	3	Chicken
Meat	1	30	3	Meat
Sardines	1	40	4	Sardine
Shrimp	1	30	3	Shrimp
Herring	5	50	5	Herring
Redberry Pie	10	78	10	Pie Dish, Flour, Water, Redberries
Trout	15	70	7	Trout
Pike	20	80	8	Pike
Meat Pie	20	110	12	Pie Dish, Flour, Water, cooked Meat
Salmon	25	90	9	Salmon
Stew	25	117	11	Bowl, Potato, cooked Meat
Apple Pie	30	130	14	Pie Dish, Flour, Water, Apple
Tuna	30	100	10	Tuna
Pizza (plain)	35	143	14	Flour, Water, Tomato, Cheese
Wine	35	200	11 *	Jug, Water, Grapes
Lobster	40	120	12	Lobster
Cake (plain)	40	180	12	Cake Tin, Flour, Milk, Egg
Swordfish	45	140	14	Swordfish
Meat Pizza	45	+26 * *	16	plain Pizza, cooked Meat
Chocolate Cake	50	+30 * *	15	plain Cake, Chocolate Bar or Chocolate Dust
Anchovy Pizza	55	+39 * *	18	plain Pizza, cooked Anchovy
Food (Members Servers)	Required level	Exp. gained	Points healed	Required ingredients
Karambwan * * * (cooked short for kp poison)	1	80	-	Karambwan
Karambwanji * * *	1	10	3	Karambwanji
Rabbit	1	30	5	Rabbit
Baked Potato	7	15	4	Potato
Spicy Sauce	9	25	2	Garlic, Gnome Spice, Bowl, Knife
Mackerel	10	60	6	Mackerel
Chilli Con Carne	11	15	5	Spicy Sauce, cooked Meat (not Chicken)
Thin Snail	12	70	5 to 7	Thin Snail
Scrambled Egg	13	50	5	Egg, Bowl
Roast Rabbit (cooked on a spit)	16	72.5	8	Rabbit, Spit
Spider on a Stick	16	80	7 to 10	Spider Carcass, Skewer or Arrow Shaft
Lean Snail	17	80	6 to 8	Lean Snail
Cod	18	75	7	Cod
Nettle Tea (shown without and with milk)	20	52	3	Bowl of Water, Nettles, empty Cup, Bucket of Milk (if desired) * * * *
Crab Meat * * * * *	21	100	10	Crab Meat
Pot of Cream	21	18	1	Bucket of Milk
Fat Snail	22	95	7 to 9	Fat Snail
Egg and Tomato (topping)	23	50	8	Scrambled Egg, Tomato
Slimey Eel	28	95	6 to 10	Slimey Eel
Sweetcorn	28	104	2 to 10	Sweetcorn
Mud Pie	29	128	-	Flour, Water (2), Pie Dish, Compost, Clay
Chompy ~	30	140	10	Chompy, Spit
Karambwan * * * (cooked long for food)	30	190	18	Karambwan
Fish Cake * * * * *	31	100	11	Mortar and Pestle, raw Cod, Knife, Bread, Kelp, Crab Meat
Garden Pie	34	138	12 +3 Farming	Flour, Water, Pie Dish, Tomato, Onion, Cabbage
Pat of Butter	38	40.5 from milk 22.5 from cream	-	Bucket of Milk or Pot of Cream
Cave Eel	38	115	7 to 11	Cave Eel
Potato with Butter	39	+40 * *	14	Baked Potato, Pat of Butter
Chilli Potato	41	+15 * *	14	Potato with Butter, Chilli Con Carne
Jubbly * * * * *	41	160	15	Jubbly, Spit
Fried Onions	42	60	5	Onion, Bowl, Knife
Bass	43	130	13	Bass
Fried Mushrooms	46	60	5	Mushroom, Bowl, Knife
Fish Pie	47	164	12 +3 Fishing	Flour, Water, Pie Dish, cooked Trout, cooked Cod, Potato
Potato with Cheese	47	+40 * *	16	Potato with Butter, Cheese
Cheese	48	64 from milk 46 from cream 23.5 from butter	2	Bucket of Milk, Pot of Cream, or Pat of Butter
Oomlie Wrap * * * * * *	50	30	14	Oomlie Meat, Palm Leaf
Egg and Tomato Potato	51	+45 * *	16	Potato with Butter, Scrambled Egg and Tomato (topping)
Lava Eel	53	30	11	Lava Eel
Mushroom and Onion (topping)	57	55	11	Fried Mushrooms, Fried Onions
Pitta Bread	58	40	-	Flour, Water
Ugthanki Kebab	58	80	19	Bowl, Flour, Water, cooked Ugthanki Meat, Tomato, Onion, Knife
Curry	60	280	19	uncooked Stew, Spice
Monkfish ~ ~	62	150	16	Monkfish
Mushroom and Onion Potato	64	+55 * *	20	Potato with Butter, Mushroom and Onion (topping)
Pineapple Pizza	65	+45 * *	22	plain Pizza, Pineapple, Knife
Tuna and Corn (topping)	67	10	13	cooked Tuna, cooked Sweetcorn, Bowl
Tuna and Corn Potato	68	+10 * *	22	Potato with Butter, Tuna and Corn (topping)
Admiral Pie	70	210	16 +5 Fishing	Flour, Water, Pie Dish, cooked Salmon, cooked Tuna, Potato
Shark	80	210	20	Shark
Seaturtle	82	211.3	21	Seaturtle
Wild Pie	85	240	22 +4 Ranged, +5 Slayer	Flour, Water, Pie Dish, raw Bear, raw Chompy, raw Rabbit
Mantaray	91	216.3	22	Manta Ray
Summer Pie	95	260	22 +5 Agility, +10% Energy	Flour, Water, Pie Dish, Strawberry, Watermelon, Apple
Food	Required level	Exp. gained	Points healed	Required ingredients

* Drinking wine gives you -3 to your attack. These negative points do add up, so if you drink 3 jugs of wine your attack gets a -9. The attack points will slowly return on their own after a few minutes.
* * Exp amount shown is for adding the extras to the cooked plain food. It does not include exp from cooking the plain food.
* * * You must complete the Tai Bwo Wannai Trio Quest to cook this fish properly.
* * * * Nettles can be found on the southern side of the jail near Draynor Village and north east of Canifis, near the Slayer Master. You must wear gloves or gauntlets when you pick them or you will be stung and loose a few hitpoints. For the cups, you can buy or steal cups of tea in Varrock just south of the eastern entrance (level 5 Thieving required).
* * * * * You must complete the Recipe For Disaster Quest to make these.
* * * * * * You must complete the Legends Quest to make Oomlie Wraps.
~ You must complete the Big Chompy Bird Hunt Quest to cook Chompy.
~ ~ You must complete the Swan Song Quest to cook Monkfish.

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